Woman threatening to jump is pulled off Allentown bridge

A Whitehall Township woman was stopped from jumping off Allentown's Eighth Street bridge late Tuesday night, according to police radio reports.

The woman was standing at the railing on the north end of the bridge at 11:55 p.m. when two people ran to her, police said. Moments later, the bystanders carried her off the bridge.

City police had received a report that a 22-year-old woman was on her way to jump from the bridge, which spans the Little Little Lehigh Creek. When they checked the report, the woman was at the railing.

After the bystanders took the woman off the bridge, she was taken to a local hospital for evaluation.